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Ok, it’s hard to beat the Final Fantasy 7 pirate, but these come close.
How about Chrono Trigger?
Maybe Diablo 2?
Golden Axe even?
Ok, I know what will get you attention. How about Legend Of Zelda: Link To The Past?
Want more? Check out this page. All in Japanese, but a quick run through Google translate will help you out.
There’s all kinds of weird originals there, even including a game based on the Titanic movie and another on Tomb Raider.
The webmaster also has some video up on YouTube, which include footage from the previously mentioned Final Fantasy 7 as well as some weird game based on The Matrix.
Golden Axe!?!?!
LOL! I remember when I first saw the TV spot, when the Mega Drive came in Italy…a friend of mine told me that Golden Axe was way superior to all my NES titles and I told him that they could have done the same game on my 8-bit. For the rest of my life I tought I’ve been so ingenuous that day…until NOW!
Very interesting – I love reading about and collecting pirate games, especially HK Originals and ports (ports done fairly well, mind you), like Mario World, for example. I did manage to get a copy of FF7, and I have the “Minish Cap” port and version of “Link’s Awakening” for the Famicom, but did not know there was a version of “A Link to the Past” for the Famicom floating around out there somewhere. I wonder if it’s possible to get a ROM of that game somehow, or maybe stumble across it on eBay or one of the various auction sites.
It is on sale http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Cassette-nes-game-card-super-tv-game-cassette-97/915488400.html